Appendix II - Further ReadingCanadian Public Health Association, Gambling Expansion in Canada: An Emerging Public HealthIssue, 2000.Hamilton Public Health, Health and Social Impacts of Gambling, December 3, 2012.Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario, The Impact of Gambling Expansion in Ontario Q&A, November2012.Toronto Public Health, Toronto Public Health Fact Sheet: Gambling and Health, December, 2012.Toronto Public Health and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Health Impacts ofGambling Expansion in Toronto: Technical Report, November 2012.Robert J. Williams, Beverly L. West, Robert I. Simpson, Prevention of Problem Gambling: A ComprehensiveReview of the Evidence and Identified Best Practices, October 2012.the wellesley institute 7
Endnotes1 Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Modernizing Lottery and Gaming in Ontario: Strategic BusinessReview, 2012. http://www.olg.ca/assets/documents/media/strategic_business_review2012.pdf.2 This section is adapted from Bob Gardner, Steve Barnes and Jennefer Laidley, The Real Cost of Cuttingthe Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit: A Health Equity Impact Assessment, WellesleyInstitute, November 2012. http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Real-Cost-of-Cutting-CSUMB1.pdf.3 See Rebecca Haber, Health Equity Impact Assessment: A Primer, (Toronto: The Wellesley Institute,2010) for a summary of HEIA. The Wellesley Institute has a range of Health Equity Impact Assessmenttools and resources, which are available at http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/policy-fields/healthcare-reform/roadmap-for-health-equity/heath-equity-impact-assessment/. The Ontariogovernment has developed a HEIA tool: http://www.torontocentrallhin.on.ca/Page.aspx?id=2936.4 Toronto Public Health and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Health Impacts ofGambling Expansion in Toronto: Technical Report, November 2012. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2012/hl/bgrd/backgroundfile-51873.pdf.5 Shawn R. Currie, David C. Hodgins, JianLi Wang, Nady El-Guebaly, Harold Wynne, & Sophie Chen,‘Risk of harm among gamblers in the general population as a function of level of participation ingambling activities’, Addiction, Vol. 101, No. 4, April 2006, pp. 570-580.6 Currie et al, ‘Risk of harm among gamblers in the general population as a function of level of participationin gambling activities’.7 Canadian Public Health Association, Gambling Expansion in Canada: An Emerging Public HealthIssue, 2000. http://www.cpha.ca/uploads/resolutions/2000-1pp_e.pdf.8 Toronto Public Health and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Health Impacts of GamblingExpansion in Toronto: Technical Report.9 Margot Andresen, ‘Governments’ conflict of interest in treating problem gamblers’, Canadian MedicalAssociation Journal, Vol. 175, No. 10, November 2006.10 Currie et al, ‘Risk of harm among gamblers in the general population as a function of level of participationin gambling activities’.11 Robert T. Wood and Robert J. Williams, ‘”How much money do you spend on gambling?” Thecomparative validity of question wordings uses to assess gambling expenditure’, InternationalJournal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2007, pp. 63-77.12 Robin Room, Nigel E. Turner and Anca Ialomiteanu, ‘Community effects of the opening of theNiagara casino’¸ Addiction, Vol. 94, No. 10, 1999, pp. 1449-1466.13 Toronto Public Health and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Health Impacts ofGambling Expansion in Toronto: Technical Report.14 Colin Mangham, Greg Carney, Sean Burnett and Robert Williams, Socioeconomic Impacts of NewGaming Venues in Four British Columbia Mainland Communities, Government of British Columbia,July 2007. http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/gaming/reports/docs/rpt-rg-impact-study-final.pdf.The real cost of Casinos 8
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